Electronics Weekly
Currently the Application Engineer Director of Cadence, she has worked in the semiconductor industry for more then 25 years.
“We’re thrilled to welcome a new Trustee to the UKESF board,” said Neil Dickins, UKESF Chair of Trustees. “Madhuparna brings vast expertise to the role, from the UK and beyond. She has been a supporter of our charity for some time. I’m sure Madhuparna will make a valuable contribution as we continue with our mission to inspire more young people to choose Electronics and address the gender imbalance in our sector.”
The UKESF is an educational charity established in 2010 that works to tackle the national skills shortage for electronics, especially semiconductor design and manufacture.
Trustee
Madhuparna Datta is an EDA and VLSI expert who has worked in India and Sweden as well as the UK.
She started off with PCB & FPGA design in Telecom at C-DoT, and then moved to the EDA industry at Cadence Design Systems where she worked across Silicon-Package-Board as well as Digital Design and Implementation product lines. Currently, she is an Application Engineer Director for Cadence, working out of Cambridge.
She highlighted the importance of more young people studying Electronics:
“I look forward to strengthening the UKESF board with my VLSI and EDA industry expertise as well as my global leadership within Society of Women Engineers (SWE). I have been a supporter of the UKESF mission of encouraging more young people to study electronics and there is great alignment with our values and approaches.”
Women Leaders in Electronics Awards
At the Electronics Weekly Women Leaders in Electronics Awards 2024 Madhuparna was crowned Mentor of the Year. She was also a finalist for Leader of the Year & Woman of the Year. Additionally, she won the Mentoring award at the Cadence Women Conference in EMEA.
See also: UKESF celebrates success of Girls into Electronics programme
